How to Set SMART Goals

In our latest whiteboard video, Erica Olsen simplifies the process of setting SMART, actionable goals for your organization. In this informative and concise video, Erica covers:

What is a goal?
How do you make sure your goals are aligned with your higher-level strategic objectives?
What does “goal cascading” mean and why is that important?

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Gather Employee Input Before You Try Managing Their Performance

Before you craft your performance management strategy, don’t miss this valuable tip for capturing your employee’s loyalty and valuable ideas. As our VP of Marketing Erica Olsen says, “recognition is the number one motivator of employees.” You can try yelling at them. You can try tossing money at them (well, probably not in this economy), […]

PepsiCo CEO, Indra Nooyi’s Five C’s of Success and How You Can Cultivate Them

Checking out a recent Costco Connection article (yes, random), I ran across a great article on Indra Nooyi where she laid out her 5 C’s of Success: Competence, Courage (and Confidence), Communication, Compass and Coaching.
Seeing as how she’s currently the head of the fourth largest food/beverage companies in the world, I […]

How to Implement Your Strategic Plan

Execute, execute, execute! That sentence (fragment) is terrifying on so many levels. Not only does it bring to mind pictures of being blindfolded, given a last cigarette, and placed in front of a firing squad, but even more scary it means once you craft a strategic plan you’re expected to make it happen.
Planning is one […]

The 5 Traps of Personal Performance Management

Performance management is a problem. More specifically, how most people approach their own performance management is riddled with pitfalls. This is evident with the torrent of self-help and self-management books that have gained popularity, the increased talk of inbox management and especially in the colossal failure of the once heralded term, “multi-tasking.” Everything points to […]

How to Develop Your Competitive Advantage

What is your competitive advantage? Have you taken the time to craft a statement for your organization that clearly defines how you serve your customers’ needs better than your competition can?
In this whiteboard video, Erica Olsen lays out why you should define your competitive advantage and how to do it. In minutes, you can learn […]

Have you checked out MyStrategicPlan’s Whiteboard Video Series?

Each week, we here at MSP have been toiling away at producing quality video content to help you, dear readers, craft super-powerful strategic plans. And what do we ask for it? Maybe a few comments… a link or two. If you haven’t taken the time to check out one of our stellar whiteboard videos, take […]

3 Perspectives for Getting Buy-in From Management

One of the most frustrating and futile exercises throughout the business world is attempting to implement a strategic plan without total management support. All of the thought put into planning and all of the work done though performance management focused on employees cannot replace this essential facet of your organization’s strategy: 100% buy in from […]

How to Perform A SWOT Analysis: A Whiteboard Video

This week in our White Board Session, Erica Olsen explains how to perform a SWOT Analysis, an essential part of the Environmental Scan within your organization’s strategic plan.

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Whiteboard Video: How to Write a Values Statement

It’s Whiteboard Thursday again, and this time we’ve got Erica Olsen detailing how to craft a values statement that will clearly explain what your organization believes, or stands for. Each week, we’ll be posting these video tutorials so check back for more!
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